ELA+3+Lesson+22

Topic: Going Places-Animal Migration

Common Core Standards: RI3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis for the answers.

RI3.7 Use information from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.

RI3.9 Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

W3.2b Develop a topic with facts, definitions and details.

W3.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details and clear event sequences.

L3.3a Choose words and phrases for effect

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will compare and contrast details from a selection. 2. Students will organize information using a Venn Diagram. 3. Students will learn important ideas in The Journey: Stories of Migration. 4. Students will use sensory details to make descriptive writing more clear.

Suggested Additional Readings: 1. //National Geographic Readers: Great Migrations Whales// by Laura Marsh 2. __Animals Migrating- How, When, Where and Why Animals Migrate__ by Etta Kaner

Resource Links: 1. [|Slideshow-Migrating Whales] 2. [|Brainpopjr]

Activities: 1. [|Migration Study] 2. [|Monarch Butterfly Article]

Assessments: 1. Compare/Contrast PB Vol. 2, p. 87 2. Weekly test, Unit 5, Lesson 22 3. Descriptive Paragraph: What would it be like for an animal to migrate. Rubric TE, Resources, p. 16

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